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The New Testament: Its Background, Growth, and Content

In this classic text, one of America's most widely respected New Testament scholars provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to the New Testament in a straightforward and understandabe style, without distortion or oversimplification.

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User Review - exinanition - LibraryThing

This is an excellent book for those yearning to know more about the background of the New Testament. Bruce Metzger is an excellent teacher, knowledgeable and amply able to express exactly as he intends to do. I highly recommend this book to the student of the New Testament.Read full review

Excellent standard textbook

User Review - Dan Stewart - Christianbook.com

This book is an excellent text introducing the primary ancient manuscripts of the New Testament and the history and rationale involved in the development of today's primary critical Greek texts. The ...Read full review

About the author (1983)

Bruce M. Metzger is the George L. Collord Professor of New Testament Language and Literature Emeritus at Princeton Theological Seminary. A past president of the Society of Biblical Literature and the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas, he has made valuable contributions to the areas of textual criticism, philology, paleography, and translation.